Name: Tommy Vext
Age: 38
Occupation: former lead singer, Bad Wolves
Last Seen: Los Angeles
Bee-otched for: making rock stupid again
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The fallout from last week's melee at the Capitol has had its effect on the entertainment industry, especially in the world of rock.
Age: 38
Occupation: former lead singer, Bad Wolves
Last Seen: Los Angeles
Bee-otched for: making rock stupid again
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The fallout from last week's melee at the Capitol has had its effect on the entertainment industry, especially in the world of rock.
On Saturday, it was announced that popular band Bad Wolves - best-known for their 2018 cover of The Cranberries' "Zombie" - had parted ways with lead singer Tommy Vext (nee Cummings). There's no official word on whether or not Vext left on his own accord or if he was let go.
Bad Wolves rose to fame with their "Zombie" cover, in which Cranberries lead singer Delores O'Riordan was supposed to appear on as a duet. However, on the morning when the song was supposed to be recorded, O'Riordan drowned in her hotel bathtub. She was just 46. The band decided to record the song anyway and donated the proceeds to Delores' children. Because of their deed, they would become one of Rock's most-respected groups.
The 'Wolves have scored six top ten smash hits on the Mainstream Rock charts. Some of the songs are personal, like "Remember When", a song Vext wrote about his identical twin brother. While Tommy chose a successful life of sobriety and music, his brother chose drugs. He's now serving a 17-year jail sentence for trying to kill Tommy while under the influence.
Other hits include "Sober" - a song about alcoholism - and their current hit on rock radio, "Learn To Walk Again".
There's no word as to why Vext is no longer with the band. But, word had it that it all had to do with good 'ol politics. Last year, Vext announced that he was supporting Drumpf. Not only that, but Vext also announced that he believed that Black Lives Matter was "manufactured" by George Soros and that he - a light-skinned black man - never experienced racism in his life.
Vext has also had his run-ins with the law. In 2008, while he was in the group Divine Heresy, he punched bandmate Dino Cazares, also the guitarist of industrial metal legends Fear Factory and his wife at the Metal Mayhem Festival in southern California. Because of this, he was ousted from the band.
Vext's most-recent allegations come from his ex-girlfriend, fitness model Whitney Johns. She claimed that last year, Vext got vexed and dragged her into a bathroom and choked her. As a result, she has a restraining order, forbidding Vext from being 100 yards from her. Vext's response? "Fake AF news" and that it was all "cancel culture" from the liberal media.
Now, Vext has launched a GoFundMe page to launch a solo career, which has raised $90,000 out of his targeted $100,000. He says that his first album will be a "double covers" LP. No word on if "Smack My Bitch Up" will be on there.
You know, rock 'n roll is about freedom and expression. When I was a teen, most of my rock heroes had the balls to tell the world that they were leftists. Bands like Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, Nine Inch Nails, Green Day and so on. To this day, I think most rockers are leftists. However, I totally agree that most bands out there today try to keep politics out of their music. But, there's some who do, and do it wrong.
For example, Five Finger Death Punch, who ironically, Vext was a temporary lead singer for when frontman Ivan Moody was in rehab a few years ago. Plus, guitarist Zoltan Bathory is Bad Wolves' manager. The video for their latest single, "Living The Dream", pokes fun at mask wearers and politicians (*cough*Nancy Pelosi*cough*) who think they're exempt. In Avenged Sevenfold's 2016 video for the title track of "The Stage", a puppet of Hillary Clinton is with puppets of Angela Merkel, Kim Jong-Un and Vladimir Putin treating a crowd like puppets themselves. However, the camera pans up and those politicians are controlled by none other than the Grim Reaper. Oddly enough, "The Stage" was A7X's last album to date.
Even legendary rockers have shown their distain for Biden and/or their love for Drumpf. Sully Erna of Godsmack was quoted on his internet radio show "I don’t care if Drumpf stays or goes, do not let him control this country" and "he’s not really controlling (the country) – it’s all the people pulling his puppet strings that are gonna control it." Bear in mind that Godsmack's 1998 hit "Bad Religion" is an anti-abortion anthem.
And yes, don't get me started on people like Morrissey, Kid Rock, John Lydon, Gene Simmons, Meat Loaf, Dave Mustaine, Sammy Hagar, Alice Cooper and yes, Ted Nugent.
Both Jon Cooper of the Christian rock band Skillet and Phil Labonte of All That Remains have expressed their distain for Facebook, Twitter and other social media sites for censoring Drumpf. Newsflash: DRUMPF'S FIRST AMENDMENT RIGHTS WERE NOT TAKEN AWAY! PERIOD! END OF GODDAMNED STORY! What he did was the equivalent of somebody yelling "FIRE!" in a theater when there's no fire. When people run to the exits and trample all over each other, they get injured or worse, killed in the process. The asshole who yelled "FIRE!" is now liable for murder and should spend the rest of their lives behind bars. Drumpf's foolish tweets killed several Washington police officers and even some of his own followers. He's been impeached twice, and deservingly so.
Look, I don't blame Bad Wolves for firing Tommy Vext, **IF** he was fired. The reality is that people like Vext are in the minority. In the past 30 years, only one Republican president WON the popular vote, and it was Dubya's second term. Drumpf only won because of the Electoral College, which misleads the county into thinking that land can vote. It's nothing more than affirmative action for rural America. True, there was the flap regarding the Democratic National Convention screwing over Bernie Sanders for Hillary, and that was good news for Drumpf's campaign.
If Tommy Vext never experienced racism, good for him. Then again, he's light-skinned. At least one of his ex-bandmates from Bad Wolves, guitarist Doc Coyle - also a light-skinned man of color - gets it and condemned Vext for his idiotic statements. People like George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Eric Garner, Jacob Blake, Martin Luther King, Rosa Parks and countless others would proudly condemn Vext's idiotic statements. They would all want to see him face the shit they've all faced by the hands of racists. Maybe they would love to see him walk in their shoes, being hung from a tree, dragged behind a truck, being whipped by a sharecropper or kneeled on their neck by a cop. It's sad that many viewed him since Bad Wolves broke out three years ago as one of rock's good guys. But now, he's another Uncle Tom.
Funny that one of Bad Wolves' most-popular songs was a tune called "Hear Me Now". Now, Tommy Vext needs to STFU.
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